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  • Tales of The Tube

    Tales of The Tube

    South Kensington house for sale for £4 million in spite of being literally right next to a noisy London Underground line

     

    Estate agents are not known for honesty but Strutt & Parker certainly neglected a key detail when preparing particulars for a £3.95 million ($5.13 million, €4.38 million or درهم18.83 million) property in Pelham Street, SW7.

     

    In a brochure for what is termed a “fabulous five bedroom freehold house situated within a charming terrace of stucco fronted houses, set back behind a private paved garden,” the firm neglect to mention that exactly to the rear of the building is the busy District and Circle line.

     

    The renovated 2,523 square foot terraced house offered spans four floors – and presumably the top floors rattle less than the lower ones – and includes a drawing room, dining kitchen, a cinema room, 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. It has a garden to the front, a roof terrace and the London Underground directly next to it. How charming.

     

    Tales of The Tube – Pelham Street, London, SW7 – House directly next to District and Circle London Underground line for sale for £3.95 million ($5.13 million, €4.38 million or درهم18.83 million) through Strutt & Parker Tales of The Tube – Pelham Street, London, SW7 – House directly next to District and Circle London Underground line for sale for £3.95 million ($5.13 million, €4.38 million or درهم18.83 million) through Strutt & Parker Tales of The Tube – Pelham Street, London, SW7 – House directly next to District and Circle London Underground line for sale for £3.95 million ($5.13 million, €4.38 million or درهم18.83 million) through Strutt & Parker Tales of The Tube – Pelham Street, London, SW7 – House directly next to District and Circle London Underground line for sale for £3.95 million ($5.13 million, €4.38 million or درهم18.83 million) through Strutt & ParkerTales of The Tube – Pelham Street, London, SW7 – House directly next to District and Circle London Underground line for sale for £3.95 million ($5.13 million, €4.38 million or درهم18.83 million) through Strutt & ParkerTales of The Tube – Pelham Street, London, SW7 – House directly next to District and Circle London Underground line for sale for £3.95 million ($5.13 million, €4.38 million or درهم18.83 million) through Strutt & Parker

  • Parking a Farmhouse

    Parking a Farmhouse

    Listed Cumbrian time warp farmhouse goes on sale for less than the price of an open-air parking space in London, W2

    A detached, 17th century farmhouse in Cumbria’s Eden Valley has gone on sale for just £290,000 ($378,000, €321,000 or درهم1.4 million) or £10,000 less than the price of an open-air car parking space in London, W2.

     

    Previously listed last year for £225,000 as part of the £2.3 million sale of a 344-acre farm – where then agents Carter Jonas ultimately received 18 offers – Newbiggin Hall Farmhouse at Newbiggin is now marketed by Eden Estate Agents simply with its gardens.

     

    The 4-bedroom house is in need of complete refurbishment but with 2,291 square foot of accommodation and a price that thus equates to the paltry sum of £127 per square foot, it does indeed seem like a genuine bargain.

    The selling agents comment: “The property is Grade II listed and has retained many charming period features, including exposed beams, paneling, feature windows and sandstone flags and stairs. This is a fascinating renovation project with a great deal of potential.”

    Parking a Farmhouse – Newbiggin Hall Farm, Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby, Eden Valley, Cumbria, CA10 1TB, United Kingdom – Grade II listed farmhouse for sale for £290,000 ($378,000, €321,000 or درهم1.4 million) through Eden Estate AgentsParking a Farmhouse – Newbiggin Hall Farm, Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby, Eden Valley, Cumbria, CA10 1TB, United Kingdom – Grade II listed farmhouse for sale for £290,000 ($378,000, €321,000 or درهم1.4 million) through Eden Estate Agents

  • Trevor Hemmings CVO

    Trevor Hemmings CVO

    Reclusive yet charming “leisure entrepreneur” Trevor Hemmings owns over 100 racehorses, lives primarily on the Isle of Man and generously funded the SAFE centre to help victims of sexual violence in Preston, Lancashire.

     

    This “publicity averse” self-made father of four’s Grand National winning horses have included Ballabriggs, Hedgehunter and Many Clouds and other assets in his collection have variously numbered Blackpool Tower and Preston North End Football Club. He also harbours a love for vintage Rolls-Royces and was considered a “surrogate son” by the equally shrewd late businessman and holiday camp owner Sir Fred Pontin (1906 – 2000).

     

    Of his success, in a rare interview in 2015, this cloth capped “earthy” gent modestly remarked:

     

    “In my business life I’ve had to climb the business and financial ladder by doing better next year than I did last year and that’s what life’s about. You have to work longer hours than everybody and you have to be on site seven days a week. Today I’m available seven days a week, people contact me seven days a week, let’s put it like that”.

     

    Reclusive “leisure entrepreneur” and racing obsessive Trevor HemmingsPictured above: Trevor Hemmings with Grand National winners Hedgehunter and Ballabriggs at Ballaseyr, Andreas.

     

  • Jack Schlossberg (AKA John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg)

    Jack Schlossberg (AKA John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg)

    New York born, Yale educated Jack Schlossberg is the only grandson of JFK. The son of designer and artist Ed Schlossberg and former Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, Schlossberg co-founded ReLight New York, a non-profit organsiation that installed fluorescent lights in low-income housing developments, whilst at school and has expressed a desire to pursue a career in politics. In May 2017, he was interviewed on NBC Today and commented: “I’m inspired by my family’s legacy of public service. It’s something that I’m very proud of, but I’m still trying to make my own way, figure things out, so stay tuned”.

     

     

  • A River Runs Through It

    A River Runs Through It

    Attractive Grade II listed riverside residence at Marlow goes on sale

     

    A charming Grade II listed 19th century riverside townhouse at Marlow in Buckinghamshire has been put on the market just before the 162nd annual Marlow Regatta.

     

    The Lodge on St Peter Street boasts what selling agents Hamptons refer to as “one of the most significant river frontages” and is opposite the weir and The Compleat Angler. Aside from mooring rights and a 65’ southerly terrace backing onto the River Thames, this 3,475 square foot two storey detached house includes 3 reception rooms, 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.

     

    Agents Hamptons seek £3.75 million ($4.84 million, €4.44 million or درهم17.77 million).

     

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  • A million pound lav

    A million pound lav

    Former public lavatory in Spitalfields, London, E1 offered for sale for a staggering £1 million (more…)

  • Kate Enters: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    Kate Enters: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    The Steeple Times asks artist and curator Kate Enters: “What’s on your mantelpiece?” (more…)

  • Danilo Tersigni

    Danilo Tersigni

    Danilo TersigniItalian bartender and gin creator Danilo Tersigni is the charming general manager of Mayfair hotspot Mr Fogg’s. (more…)

  • Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA

    Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA

    Sir John RitblatThis twice married, Hampstead born property titan acquired British Land for £1 million in 1970 from the corporate raider Jim Slater. (more…)

  • Korrel Kennedy

    Korrel Kennedy

    BARKER KG 120813This sometime catwalk model from Brighton was branded “one of Britain’s worst louts” in 2008 but by 2010 had “turned his life around” according to the Daily Mail. After briefly appearing in the BBC’s Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne and being signed with Elite Models, by 2013 he was in trouble again and locked up in HMP Rochester. The former £63,000 a year zero tolerance special school educated and “perfect mix of handsome, charming and checky [sic]”, Kennedy – who “hasn’t eaten McDonals [sic] in about a year” – stripped to his underpants with cellmate and aggravated burglar Sonny Barker (who then posted the images to Facebook). A prosecutor who warned: “He is the hallmark of a young man who will end up in prison” has been proven right yet his mother claims it’s not her fault as she’s been “let down by every agency”. She added: “I don’t accept that he’s worse than most other kids”. This woman is wrong. Her son is a menace who could do with a stint of hard labour.